The Codename for F12 has been Announced…

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It was a joke. I apologize if the word ‘hippo-coon’ is a racial slur and you were offended. That was obviously not the point. I have never heard of either part of the word ‘hippo-coon’ being a racial slur – not in the northeastern US as far as I know at least.

‘Hippo-coon’ was a code name that had been proposed but was rejected early in the process.

‘Coon’ can be a racial slur against people of African decent, but I’ve only heard of it being used in Australia about Australian Aborigines. It’s also the brand name of a cheese here, but that’s unrelated – it was (apparently) named after Edward Coon, the creator of a cheese making process, although there has been some controversy about the name…

Yeah, my first thought on seeing this (as a brit) was also to the racist implications of the word ‘coon’ – http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/coon/ . Ah well, you can’t go checking for implied racism for all locales…